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College  | Story  | 5/7/2016

Potential 1st rounders on display

Jheremy Brown      Steve Fiorindo      Patrick Ebert     
Photo: Tod Fierner/Saint Mary's College Athletics




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St. Mary's 8, Loyola Marymount 3

Junior righthander Corbin Burnes, currently ranked the 33rd best prospect available for this year’s draft, moved to 8-0 on the year in St. Mary’s 8-3 win over Loyola Marymount on Friday. Burnes worked the first six frames, allowing just one earned run on four base hits and three walks while striking out nine batters. The Gaels made the most out of eight base hits, and also showed a very patient approach by reaching base via a walk eight other times.




Burnes has a lean, high-waisted and athletic 6-foot-3, 205-pound build that offers more room for additional strength, but he already has good strength and overall balance in his stature. Similar to David Price, he employs a slight forward-stride to start his delivery, gathering over the rubber with a strong drive direct to home plate. He works on the third base side of the rubber and works comfortably to his arm side of the plate, making him effective working in against righthanded hitters and away from lefties.

However, he did struggle with command on the opposite side of the plate, his glove side. He does have a good changeup, but he will continue to need to work to find an effective offering to bust lefthanded hitters in. Of the three hits he allowed, three came on fastballs and one on a mistake changeup. Two of those hits were by lefty hitters taking an outside fastball the opposite way to left field.

His fastball sat almost exclusively in the 92-94 mph range, throwing one heater at 91, and maintained that velocity very well through his six innings of work. The ball jumps out of his hand, showing life in on righthanded hitters and generating some downhill plane making him that much more difficult to hit. The pitch flattens out when he elevates it.

Burnes also throws a slider at 78-81 mph, a short, tight and late-breaking offering that is a true swing-and-miss pitch that he does well keeping down in the zone. He used it frequently as a chase pitch down and away. As noted the changeup shows promise as well, with good sink and fade in the 83-87 mph range. The one hit he allowed on the pitch was a hanger at 81 that got hammered for a double off the wall. However, he showed enough comfort with the pitch to double up on in a few different times in the game, and even tripled up on it once to a lefthanded batter.

The fourth pitch in Burnes’ repertoire is a curveball, although it clearly is his fourth best pitch. It may be more of a variation of his slider, taking a little off of it to drop it in for strikes.

The overall impression on Burnes was a very positive one, although he will need to continue to develop a pitch/approach to get in on lefthanded batters.



No. 10 Ole Miss 6, Georgia 4

In a battle of SEC teams on Friday night potential first round pick and former PG All-American Robert Tyler and the Georgia Bulldogs took on Errol Robinson and the Ole Miss Rebels. The Rebels earned the 6-4 victory behind a strong bullpen effort and a big day at the plate for Robinson.


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